Quality Engineer, Trading Order Generation
About the position Are you excited to build quality into a highly-performant trading system from the ground up? Do you thrive on working in fast-paced environments where your attention to detail can directly impact mission-critical functionality? Are you energized by collaboration with engineers, designers, and product managers to prevent bugs before they happen and ensure seamless, secure, and scalable software? If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team. As a Quality Engineer (QE) on Ridgeline's Trade Order Management team, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering an enterprise-grade trading system purpose-built for the investment management industry. This platform is being developed from scratch using modern tools and technologies and is engineered for speed, precision, and scalability. Your role will focus on proactively identifying issues, designing automated test strategies, and maintaining a laser focus on the end-user experience. You'll be expected to bring a quality-first mindset, strong communication skills, and a desire to build systems that are secure and robust. This role leverages cutting-edge AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to accelerate quality assurance and optimize workflows. At Ridgeline, how we work matters as much as what we build. Ridgeliners act like owners, choose growth over comfort, and communicate with transparency. We assume positive intent, bias toward action, and bring solutions-not just problems. We celebrate wins, learn from setbacks, and thrive in a resilient, collaborative, high-performing culture. If the Ridgeline Way excites you, we'd love to meet you.
Responsibilities
- Bring business domain insight and technical expertise to a team where product, engineering, and quality engineering collaborate closely.
- Engage across the full development lifecycle: requirements, design reviews, implementation, and release.
- Prevent bugs by defining clear expected behavior with Product Managers and outlining thorough test cases.
- Define, execute, and refine test plans and automation strategies to ensure high-quality releases.
- Investigate root causes, write actionable bug reports, analyze defect trends, and address coverage gaps.
- Maintain and evolve reliable front-end and back-end automation suites; ensure issues are surfaced quickly.
- Ensure release readiness under tight timelines through ownership and accountability.
- Build test data grounded in real customer use cases to strengthen internal testing environments.
- Think creatively, own problems, seek solutions, and communicate clearly along the way
- Contribute to a collaborative environment rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency
Requirements
- Strong Fintech knowledge in one or more areas: Portfolio Management, Compliance, Trading, Post-Trade, Real-Time Pricing.
- 4+ years in quality engineering or equivalent, with experience building and launching products on a common platform.
- 4+ years applying software testing methodologies within a CI/CD lifecycle.
- 4+ years of test planning and automation experience.
- Degree in computer science, mathematics, finance, accounting, or similar field preferred.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Datadog, Cypress (end-to-end), and Karate (API).
- Ability to influence decision-making with respectful, constructive opinions.
- Ownership mindset for test tooling and evolving QE practices.
- Skilled at bridging Product, Design, and Engineering to align on expected behavior.
- Willingness to learn about cutting-edge technologies while cultivating expertise in a business domain/problem space.
- An aptitude for problem solving
- Ability to communicate effectively with teams across the organization (e.g. Customer Service, Tech Docs)
- Serious interest in having fun at work
Nice-to-haves
- Prior Trading software experience is a plus.
Benefits
- unlimited vacation
- educational and wellness reimbursements
- $0 cost employee insurance plans
- Company Stock Plan
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